There's a few people who march to their own drummer.

One of those people is Ms. Lauryn Hill. Another is Mr. Dave Chappelle.

On September 18, 2004, a parade of hip-hop stars ascended onto a city block in Brooklyn and held a memorable concert forever preserved on video called Dave Chappelle's Block Party.

Lauryn Hill was to be the star of the show but because Columbia Records would not let her perform her solo hits from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, she asked Dave if he'd be cool with her calling up her pals, the Fugees, to reunite for the gig.

Earlier in the process, Corey Smyth, the Chappelle Show talent supervisor, had instructed Dave to watch the documentary of the 1973 festival Wattstax which interspersed comedy moments of Richard Pryor with performances by the likes of the Bar-Kays, Albert King, Isaac Hayes, and the Staple Singers at the LA Colosseum.

The two men agreed they should try to make a similar film for Chappelle's 2004 Block Party, where he would assume the role of Pryor and the musical guests would include even bigger stars from Kanye West to the Roots to Common and now the Fugees who hadn't performed together since 1997.

Everyone played just two or three songs, for the exception of Ye who busted with four.

And still the stars of the show were the Fugees, who only performed three songs but merely being back together warmed everyone's hearts.

"All right, everybody, listen up," Chappelle told the crowd on Quincy and Downing Streets in Brooklyn.

"There's been some technical difficulties. As you all know, we were expecting Lauryn Hill to close the show. Unfortunately Columbia Records will not clear any of her songs. Lucky for us, Lauryn Hill came up with an alternative solution.

"Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for a miracle. The Fugees," he said.

After Lauryn, Wyclef and Pras shocked the crowd with "Nappy Heads," they broke into "Killing Me Softly With His Song," a song originally recorded in 1972 by 20 year-old Lori Lieberman. The next year Roberta Flack covered it and had a #1 smash with it.

23 years later the Fugees had it on their sophomore album, The Score, where the single and the LP went to #1 and the group won the Grammy for Best Rap Album and were nominated for Album of the Year.

"You say where I been?" Hill asked a fan after the song was over.

"That's where I been," she replied pointing to a young child being held by a smiling woman. The bald-headed boy could very well have been John Nesta Marley who was born in June 2003, so would have been a bit over one at the time.

The third song they performed was the most controversial of them all, in part because it came from The Miseducation... and thus everyone knew Columbia would never let it see the light of day.

But also because it was allegedly Lauryn's diss track about Wyclef, "Lost Ones."

A lot had gone on between Hill and Jean and some of it came up in the song. But Wyclef introduced the song that September night in Brooklyn as a way to show the world everything was cool between he and his former love and bandmate.

Perhaps one day Columbia will also let bygones be bygones and let the footage air.

Miss Lauryn Hill has live dates scheduled on her calendar. As you may know about her, sometimes she goes on with the show, sometimes she doesn't. When the shows happen, they are typically fantastic.

In October she is scheduled to do a European Tour through the first of November. Get your tickets on her site, but save the receipt just in case.